Subject

Floor Brick

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Floor-fill layers & early brick paving in DeTurk kitchen celllar, 769 (2009

Photos 1001.01.234

Kitchen floor fill and brick paving

DeTurk · 07/21/2009

The earthen layers appearing in these two photos, of varying compositions of clay, sand, gravel, and [probably] floor sweepings, document the incremental raising of the floor levels in the kitchen and "root" cellars as occasional creek floods, and frequent water table incursions, inundated the working kitchen and food storage areas. Brick floor paving and fi

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DeTurk masonry pier between cellar doorway and window

Photos 1001.01.153

Masonry pier in cellar wall

DeTurk · 07/28/2009

East cellar wall pier between doorway and window prior to restoration. View from inside the lower ground-level kitchen showing excavation to base blocks set on bedrock, the natural "footings"{1} underpinning the foundations. Further excavation, conducted within archaeological screening methods, will be undertaken to determine the extent of instability in

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